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The Seventeenth Prefectural Oversight Committee convened in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, on December 25, 2014, releasing the latest results of thyroid examination, consisting of Initial Screening or the first-round (originally scheduled to be conducted from October 2011 to March 2014, but actually still ongoing) and Full-Scale Screening or the second-round (beginning April 2014).

Initial Screening targeted about 368,000 individuals who were age 18 and younger, residing in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the Tokyo Electric Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident on March 11, 2011. About 80% of those eligible have undergone the primary ultrasound examination, either in Fukushima Prefecture or in other prefectures where they have relocated to. Full-Scale Screening, to be conducted every 2 years until age 20 and every 5 years after age 20, additionally targets those who were born in the first year after th…

As with some of the previous committee meetings, thyroid cancer information was apparently leaked to the media the day before the 17th Prefectural Oversight Committee Meeting for Fukushima Health Management Survey, scheduled for December 25, 2014. Since the English edition of the Kyodo news article contained very little information, just as the online Japanese news articles, all based on the same Kyodo post, the paper edition of the Fukushima Minyu post was transcribed and translated as below. (See below the translation for the actual images of the post in the paper edition).
*****From the December 24, 2014 article in the paper edition of Fukushima Minyu. (The online edition only includes the first three paragraphs and the first sentence of the fourth paragraph).

Thyroid Examination: Four Suspected of Cancer in Second Screening--These Children Had Normal Exam Results in First Screening

In the thyroid examination conducted in all children in Fukushima Prefecture in order to investigate …

This is a compilation of the most current information
on Fukushima thyroid cancer surgical cases from 3 different sources (screenshots of the abstracts for 2 & 3 can be seen in this post): November
11, 2014Thyroid Examination
Evaluation Subcommittee meetingNovember 14, 2014 Japan Thyroid Association
meetingAugust 28, 2014 Japan Society of Clinical Oncology meeting

Due to
the span of the time amongst these 3 sources, they have different numbers for
the cases of thyroid cancer. For clarification, the most updated summary of the
thyroid cancer cases is presented first.

Summary of Fukushima Thyroid Cancer Cases as of November 29 by Yuri Hiranuma********************************************************************************************************Summary of
Fukushima thyroid cancer cases as of November 2014 Number of cases
suspected or confirmed of thyroid cancer = 104 Cases that had
surgery = 58 Cases confirmed of
thyroid cancer = 57 (1 of 58 turned out to be benign nodules) 55 of 58 case…

On October 24, 2014, at the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly being held in New York City, representatives from Physicians for Social Responsibility (USA) and Human Rights Now (Tokyo, Japan) hand-delivered a letter to the chairperson of the 4th Committee and the Secretary of UNSCEAR. The letter, co-signed by 43 civil society groups from 9 countries, including 21 Japanese groups, requested revision of the 2014 UNSCEAR report on Fukushima accident as well as a new UN mandate for UNSCEAR.

Date: 24
October 2014 To: Members of the Fourth Committee of the UN
General Assembly 69th Session, Members of UNSCEAR, and Members of the UN General
Assembly:

Re:Civil
Society groups request revision of the recent United Nations Scientific
Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) Report: “Levels and
effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great
East-Japan Earthquake and tsunami.”

The 2011
Fukushima disaster made UN oversight of the adverse effects of …